Essential Questions

1. How do interpersonal design and employability skills affect your everyday life and your future?
With having a general idea of what interpersonal design and employability skills, you will know what to lay out everyday when you're at work.

2. What is graphic design and why is it important to communicate visually?
Graphic design is the art or skill of combining text and pictures in advertisements, magazines, or books. It is important to communicate visually because it sets the mood and it shows what it means.

3. Why is it important to identify safety issues and to safely operate equipment utilized in the classroom?
So that we don't hurt ourselves.

4. What are the elements of design and how are they incorporated into a design?
Elements of design describes the fundamental ideas about the practice of good visual design. They are incorporated into a design by showing putting in the designer's ideas into the design.

5. What is a vector-based design and how is it created?
They are the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygons which are based on mathematical expressions to represent images in computer graphics.

6. How is color used effectively in graphic design?
Color is used in graphic design to set the mood of the design.

7. What is a raster-based image and how is it created?
They are resolution dependent are created by pixels.

8. How does the manipulation of size and resolution affect digital images?
It expands or compresses pixels.

9. What is the function of the type within a design?
The function is to give the audience some sort of feeling and express the designer's thoughts.

10. How do designers use a page layout program?
They use a page layout program to explain their design.

11. What steps does a designer take to design a page layout from concept to final product?
First, they have to create what they want to design and transfer that to a page layout to form their final product.

12. What are the key developments in the history of visual communication? How did these developments shape our industry?
For example, New York City would be a key development in the history of visual communication because of all the big, bright advertisements going on. It created what New York City is now today.

13. What careers are available within the field of graphic designer? What profession are associated with the industry?
There are many careers available within the field of graphic designer such as an art/creative director, advertising/marketing, print publication designer, etc.

14. Would I want to become an Illustrator or Graphic Designer? Explain.
No, because I feel like I wouldn't be good at it because thinking up of something to design is hard for me.